Karina A. Vado
@karinavadophd.bsky.social
Scholar, writer, and contingent faculty @Hopkins • Latin/x American Studies, Science & Tech Studies, & Science Fiction Studies • Book-in-progress: "Latinx DNA: Race, Latinidad, and the Gene(ome)" • Forever running on coladas • She/Ella/Dr. 🇳🇮
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.
September 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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Related, helpful read: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645827...
September 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Related, helpful read: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645827...
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I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
September 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
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A popular white man got killed by another white man while speaking on an overwhelming white campus in an overwhelmingly white state and this is the result. Racism doesn’t need a reason, only an excuse.
Two Virginia HBCUs receive threat; VSU on lockdown and Hampton classes canceled
One university in Virginia is on lockdown, and another has said classes are canceled as it urges students to stay inside, after threats were made to both Thursday morning. Both schools, Virginia State...
www.nbcwashington.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A popular white man got killed by another white man while speaking on an overwhelming white campus in an overwhelmingly white state and this is the result. Racism doesn’t need a reason, only an excuse.
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The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies (731) - HigherEdJobs
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September 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
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August 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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CFP: Latinx Studies Association conference in March 2026 in Austin, TX. latinxstudiesassociation.org/call-for-pro...
July 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
CFP: Latinx Studies Association conference in March 2026 in Austin, TX. latinxstudiesassociation.org/call-for-pro...
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When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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Baltimore!
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a conversation with @derecka.bsky.social about his new book Reconsidering Reparations, hosted by @redemmas.org
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
RSVP to attend:
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a conversation with @derecka.bsky.social about his new book Reconsidering Reparations, hosted by @redemmas.org
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
RSVP to attend:
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò presents "Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism" in conversation w/Derecka Purnell
A clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens.
redemmas.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Baltimore!
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a conversation with @derecka.bsky.social about his new book Reconsidering Reparations, hosted by @redemmas.org
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
RSVP to attend:
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a conversation with @derecka.bsky.social about his new book Reconsidering Reparations, hosted by @redemmas.org
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
RSVP to attend:
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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Other New Bedford ICE detentions: "ICE agents entered the house without a warrant on March 21, using a battering ram and wearing military-style fatigues. The agents pointed their weapons at the children’s faces as they were eating breakfast before school."
The New Bedford Light has more detailed reporting on this.
This story should be everywhere. Fucking gestapo shit.
This story should be everywhere. Fucking gestapo shit.
Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminal record - The New Bedford Light
Immigration agents blocked the car that he and his wife were driving in and smashed a window to detain him without presenting a warrant.
newbedfordlight.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Other New Bedford ICE detentions: "ICE agents entered the house without a warrant on March 21, using a battering ram and wearing military-style fatigues. The agents pointed their weapons at the children’s faces as they were eating breakfast before school."
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This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
April 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
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The attack on Josh Shapiro and his family during the first night of Passover is chilling, tbh. Maybe it has nothing to do with them being Jewish. But we don’t know that right now. The historical echoes are bad, either way.
April 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The attack on Josh Shapiro and his family during the first night of Passover is chilling, tbh. Maybe it has nothing to do with them being Jewish. But we don’t know that right now. The historical echoes are bad, either way.
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She was arrested by masked men, denied due process, and also denied the asthma medications she needs. She has had 15 asthma attacks in her life and four of them have been during her detention.
This is illegal and a betrayal of every American ideal. Release her and lock up her captors instead!
This is illegal and a betrayal of every American ideal. Release her and lock up her captors instead!
On the night she was picked up by immigration agents near Tufts, Rümeysa Öztürk said she had no idea who the men were who took her phone and hustled her into a van. For hours on a long drive north, she was shackled and feared she might be killed, she said in a statement filed in federal court.
Tufts student details harrowing transport by ICE, lack of food and medical care in detention
Rümeysa Öztürk's sworn statement was filed alongside a motion from her attorneys seeking her immediate release from detention while they fight the revocation of her visa.
www.wbur.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
She was arrested by masked men, denied due process, and also denied the asthma medications she needs. She has had 15 asthma attacks in her life and four of them have been during her detention.
This is illegal and a betrayal of every American ideal. Release her and lock up her captors instead!
This is illegal and a betrayal of every American ideal. Release her and lock up her captors instead!
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The humanities don't matter, no one cares about history, they say, as they cut funding and lines, and yet they are so determined to regulate what we teach and what we say so obviously it all matters. It's the worst of both worlds-- we matter enough to censor, but not enough to fund.
April 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The humanities don't matter, no one cares about history, they say, as they cut funding and lines, and yet they are so determined to regulate what we teach and what we say so obviously it all matters. It's the worst of both worlds-- we matter enough to censor, but not enough to fund.
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Trump wants us all to literally eat shit and die
“The now-recalled butter was distributed to grocery stores in seven states—Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.”
www.realsimple.com/butter-recal...
www.realsimple.com/butter-recal...
Major Butter Brand Recall Due to Potentially “Elevated” Levels of Fecal Matter
Agri-Mark, Inc. has voluntarily recalled Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted, due to the potential presence of fecal matter.
www.realsimple.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump wants us all to literally eat shit and die
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It's been a week since #NEH staff arrived at our jobs as public servants and discovered DOGE circumvented our databases and terminated our #humanities grants.
Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.
Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.
"The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports #museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent." #NEH www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It's been a week since #NEH staff arrived at our jobs as public servants and discovered DOGE circumvented our databases and terminated our #humanities grants.
Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.
Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.
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Listen up. The Department of Homeland Security is scraping your social media for "antisemitism." If you have posted anything in support of Palestine and you are on a visa, have a green card, or are undocumented, take steps. This is serious. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
www.uscis.gov
April 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Listen up. The Department of Homeland Security is scraping your social media for "antisemitism." If you have posted anything in support of Palestine and you are on a visa, have a green card, or are undocumented, take steps. This is serious. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
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What’s next in STS? Apply here to make the case:
It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
What’s next in STS? Apply here to make the case: